Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī (1) ibn Baṭḥāʾ ibn ʿAlī ibn Muqlah (2), Abū Isḥāq al-Tamīmī, served as the muḥtasib (market inspector) of Baghdad. He transmitted ḥadith from ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb, and others, and was regarded as trustworthy and outstanding.

One day he passed by the house of the judge Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, where litigants were crowded at the door while the sun was already high above them. He sent his usher to the judge with the message: “Either come out and settle their cases, or send a word of apology—if you have a valid excuse—so that they may return to you later (3).”

Abū ʿAlī ibn Khayrān (4), the Shāfiʿī jurist, was one of the leading authorities of the school. His full name was al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Khayrān, Abū ʿAlī, a great, devout, and accomplished scholar. The post of judge was offered to him, but he refused. The vizier ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā sealed his door for sixteen days, and his family could obtain water only from neighboring homes; yet even so he remained adamant and would not accept any office. The vizier then said, “We wished merely to show people that in our land and under our rule there is someone who was offered the chief judgeship of both East and West yet would not accept it.” He died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of this year; we have given his full biography in “Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah,” which is sufficient—may Allah have mercy on him (5).

ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAdī (6), a jurist from Istrābādh, was among the leading Muslim scholars, a ḥāfiẓ and eminent transmitter of ḥadith. We have likewise mentioned him in “Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah” (7).